[Gllug] Is is it nasty ? Not for us

French, Alastair Alastair.French at racalinst.co.uk
Wed Aug 1 13:48:44 UTC 2001


If you have to send a virus to the list could you zip it first to change the
signature or extract it and paste it as text. It cause no end of grief with
our IT dept.

Alastair

> -----Original Message-----
> From:	Formi [SMTP:rcformi at yahoo.com]
> Sent:	Wednesday, August 01, 2001 2:42 PM
> To:	gllug at linux.co.uk
> Subject:	Re: [Gllug] Is is it nasty ? Not for us
> 
> On Wednesday 01 August 2001 14:30, you wrote:
> > ----- Original Message -----
> > From: Formi <rcformi at yahoo.com>
> > To: <gllug at linux.co.uk>
> > Sent: Wednesday, August 01, 2001 2:22 PM
> > Subject: [Gllug] Is is it nasty ?
> >
> > >  Guys, is this any kind of virus or nasty bit of code ? It has been
> sent
> >
> > to
> >
> > >me a couple of times.
> > >
> > > but finishes with
	cut

> >
> >
> > looks like it could be a virus masquerading as an excell file.  I would
> say
> > that it looks like binary data, and a .com file is executeable in
> windows I
> > believe.  Be carefull ;-)
> >
> 
>  That is exactly what I thought, thank you and Richard for the
> confirmation.
> 
>  Cheers, 
> 
>                         Formi.
> 
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